what with the legendary stardust cowboy being a moajor influence on one David Jones back in the day, and with Brian Eno being interested enough to join the orchestra of the Portsmouth Sinfonia, playing clarinet, and subsequently producing their first two albums, the links to Bowie are never far!

"We Built This City" is a good contender for the worst record ever made, it's true, but it doesn't belong here because it had a professional production job and the people involved in performing it were all eminently capable old pro's.

It's particularly painful if you are enamoured (as I am) of some of the old Jefferson Airplane records. To think that that hideous piece of contrived and patronising garbage was where it all ended up is almost too awful to think about. It's one of the many reasons why one has to learn not to take rock/pop culture too seriously.

Agreed â€” I wanted to gag when I first heard that record. And being in San Francisco at the time and as a DJ made it even worse. I want you to know that I never ever played that song out in public and I never ever listened to the whole thing even in private. It was and is dreck of the worst kind. I try not to pass such judgments, or at least not make public pronouncements of them â€” but in this case I can't hold back.

But wow! The production value of such dreck! Impressive, especially for the times! It made STARSHIP (is that from some Bowie album? hmm..) as American as APPLE PIE!! YUM!! :) :) :) <---American Smiley faces there. Consume at will.

I had to go to the Youtube and check for myself. Messieurs, you are absolutely right about that Starship song.
It even has a video to match (next: The Most Horribly Dated 1980's Song/Video in the World...).

Yesterday on our talk radio station, there was a story in the news about how some people are being punished for the crime of playing their music too loud. The punishment is that they're forced to listen to Barry Manilow.

But then someone else mentioned that maybe Kenny Chesney might be worse punishment. Then someone else mentioned Loving You by Minni Ripperton. I think I might agree with those. But then there was Brand New Roller Skates by Melanie Safka. I didn't think that one was so bad.